12mo. 22pp, [2]. With a woodcut vignette to title page and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Uncut. Sewn, as issued. A clean and crisp copy.

A devotional chapbook, in crisp original state, intended to remind readers to give thanks to God for a bountiful harvest as 'How calamitous would a general blight upon our Corn have proved this season!...such a blight was threatened indeed, but suddenly, and the very point of time when it was most needed, the weather changed, and a season unusually favourable for getting in the fruits of the earth has succeeded'.

The 'Cheap Repository' series of moral tales were begun in 1795 by Hannah More (1745-1833), intended to be distributed as an antidote to the immoral popular literature circulated in ballad and chapbook form by street vendors and aimed to combat unscrupulous living and secular dissent.